Quote

He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

George Herbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Herbert
Age: 39 †
Born: 1593
Born: April 3
Died: 1633
Died: March 1
Cleric
Poet
Politician
Priest
Writer
Montgomery
Powys
Pepper
Peppers
Lists
Season
Seasons
May

More quotes by George Herbert

Image
Nothing dries sooner then a teare.
George Herbert
Image
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).
George Herbert
Image
Pull downe your hatt on the winds side.
George Herbert
Image
He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.
George Herbert
Image
Many friends in generall, one in speciall.
George Herbert
Image
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
George Herbert
Image
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
George Herbert
Image
A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.
George Herbert
Image
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
George Herbert
Image
Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger.
George Herbert
Image
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
George Herbert
Image
Get to live Then live, and use it else, it is not true That thou hast gotten. Surely use alone Makes money not a contemptible stone.
George Herbert
Image
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
George Herbert
Image
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
George Herbert
Image
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
George Herbert
Image
To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).
George Herbert
Image
When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.
George Herbert
Image
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
George Herbert
Image
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
George Herbert
Image
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
George Herbert